do you like going to SPAs?

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I love going to SPAs. It is so relaxing and rejuvenating. Although I do not go as often as I like, mainly because of financial reasons, I still cherish the times when I was able to go. Because of my love for SPAs, this TIME magazine (10/6/08) article about A SPA THAT SLITHERS caught my attention. Instinctively, I read through the article and it got me fascinated. I mean, you've heard about SPAs that use chocolate, mud, seasalt, hot rocks and all those other common things. But have you heard of a SPA that uses SNAKES? Yep, you read it right snakes. Here is an excerpt from that article that I want to share with you so that you'll read on your own what I am talking about. (written by: Tim McGirk and Talmei Elazar) Most SPAs have names that conjure up an atmosphere of bliss and tranquility. So I am a little taken aback by the sign outside the SPA in the orange groves of northern Israel. It reads, ADA BARAK'S CARNIVOROUS PLANT FARM. Barak makes most of her income by showing off her plants, which eat everything from insects to reptiles to small mammals and schnitzel. She started grabbing one of the little snakes slithering in and out of the hungry plants' jaw and passing it around to visitors at the end of her act. And that is how she hit on the snakes' therapeutic value. ***** And the article continued to describe how it felt to be "slithered" onto by the snakes. But I don't think I'll be able to enjoy it. I am terribly afraid of snakes! Would you try this one?